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Skeptic, naturalist and existential-nihilist philospher, Epicurus is interested in the Greco-Roman philosophies of antiquity as well as admiring from the stoa its cultural and aesthetical milleu. Epicurus takes to connoisseuring from the philosophical punch the many schools of philosophy and testing their wisdom.
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The Lotus-eaters and the static utopia

Within the entertaining world that is Greek Mythology, there is of course the great classic of Homer’s Odyssey. The story focuses on the titular protagonist, Odysseus, Greek hero of the Continue Reading

Posted On : 27th June 2022 Published By : Epicurus Of Albion
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To the human race, this universe is not yours…

  The idea that the world belongs to the human race is not a new one; in the Holy Bible, book of Genesis, it explicitly states: Then God said, “Let Continue Reading

Posted On : 31st May 2022 Published By : Epicurus Of Albion
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The Flow of Experience…

Experience… Just stay in the present moment and you’ll realise by direct awareness that experience is not episodic. To those practitioners paying mindful attention to the present, they will soon Continue Reading

Posted On : 27th April 2022 Published By : Epicurus Of Albion
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What is Nihilism?

We’ve all head the term nihilism, sometimes liberally thrown about as a synonym for pessimism or defeatism. But in philosophical circles worthy of the name, it’s an actual philosophical system Continue Reading

Posted On : 8th March 2022 Published By : Epicurus Of Albion
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Monty Python and the Holy Grail of postmodernism

The 1975 film, Monty Python and the Holy Grail is a classic postmodern film. Making use of its characteristic Pythonesque comedy to subvert traditional storytelling, religion, time and Arthurian myth. Continue Reading

Posted On : 9th February 2022 Published By : Epicurus Of Albion
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Do I give assent to this?

Among the tools of the stoics is Epictetus’ Discipline of Assent. Now the Greek work for consent or approval is sunkatathesis, but in the stoic context it means agreeing with Continue Reading

Posted On : 4th February 2022 Published By : Epicurus Of Albion
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Schopenhauer and the striving

  For Schopenhauer the will is the thing in itself, all revealed and bare to anybody who looks at the phenomena of every day matter. The will is inherent in Continue Reading

Posted On : 29th December 2021 Published By : Epicurus Of Albion
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Premeditatio malorum – ‘premeditation of adversity’

  We just don’t know for certain what is around the corner as we go about living our lives. When times are rosy, we naturally let our guard down in Continue Reading

Posted On : 28th November 2021 Published By : Epicurus Of Albion
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Your Purpose in (Post)Modernity

Your reason for being here? Your parents met and you were born. That explains the ultimate cause for your existence up to this point in time, and any questions asking Continue Reading

Posted On : 17th November 2021 Published By : Epicurus Of Albion
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What is emptiness?

    “When emptiness is possible Everything is possible; Were emptiness impossible,                                 Nothing would be possible.” – Nagarjuna   When something is described as empty, what is typically meant Continue Reading

Posted On : 28th October 2021 Published By : Epicurus Of Albion

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